Tools to Help You Teach: Salmon

From Nimbus Fish Hatchery

Welcome!

Dear educators,

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife appreciates your dedication to bringing conservation-related education to your students! Please utilize this resource to support your learning. It is filled with salmonid-related content for Pre-K through 12th grade.

Underwater view of spawning Chinook salmon

Table of Contents

Nimbus Hatchery Lesson Series from Green Guardians:
Free Online Lesson Series for Grades 3-5 ...p. 4

Valuable PDFs:
Nimbus Vocab ...p. 5
Salmonid Coloring Book ...p. 6
Nimbus Correlations to NGSS ...p. 7
American River Salmon Curriculum ...p. 8

Fun Videos:
Run, Salmon, Run Song ...p. 9
Life Cycle Animation ...p. 10
Tour of Nimbus Fish Hatchery ...p. 11
This is Aquaculture by UC Davis ...p. 12

The Story of Nimbus Fish Hatchery

This free lesson series is about how the combination of human activity and climate change have affected the life cycle of salmon and what Nimbus Fish Hatchery is doing to mitigate these problems. Developed for Grades 3-5.

Nimbus Vocab

2 pages of salmon vocab for Grades K-12. We recommend selecting 5-10 words from this list relevant to your learning objectives.

Nimbus_Hatchery_Vocab.pdf

"eyed eggs"

Coloring Book

Pacific Salmon and Steelhead coloring book, published by the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife. Best for Grades 1-5.

Salmon_Coloring_Book (1).pdf